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Originally posted by mtsgsd
Has anyone seen the show on Discovery about the Bible and how it was made? Apparently the new testament is an assembly of "books" that were hand picked and edited by the governments involved that created them. In other words, the what the bible was depended on what country you were in. An example given was one country's version that left out a particular book, because it made Christ sound "too Jewish" as the King hated Jews. The modern bible is an assembly of heavily edited documents chosen to fit the tastes of the publishers who wrote it. Even the experts from the Vatican were acknowledging this on the show. Blew my mind.
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If you're speaking of the Bible before there were councils to create a united scripture, then yes. However, the current books of the Old Testament were declared inspired at the Council of Jamnia in the year 90 and the books of the New Testament were declared inspired at the Council of Athenasius in the year 367 and upheld at the Council of Carthage in the year 397. Lastly, much of the apocrypha was officially supported as inspired by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent in 1546. The apocrypha is a number of books in the Catholic Bible's Old Testament that are no longer included in Jewish scripture. Some forms of Judaism long ago did include them but, obviously, the form that did not reigned supreme. However, they are included as being authoritative in the Catholic Bible.
The point is, while many versions of the Bible have existed, regarding which books are and are not included, the present form of the Bible is something that was decided on through a series of meetings with Church Leaders from many different places. Besides the debate as to whather or not the apocrypha was inspired between Protestants and Catholics, there has not been much debate for a VERY long time as to what book are and are not inspired and what books do and do not belong in the Bible. And the final decisions on the matter were made by Doctors of the Church, not politicians.